Stealing Pens: Travelers from the End of the World

Zhang Qiling arranged her hair and hat, thought for a while and asked: "Those people..."

"It's all solved." Qin Yuchen said.

Qin Yuchen opened his eyes slightly and looked at Zhang Qiling who was hesitant to speak. He suppressed his weird mood and said with a smile: "I will definitely take you with me when I encounter this kind of thing in the future."

"...Okay." Zhang Qiling responded softly.

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At around two o'clock in the morning, Tan Yuchen and Zhang Qiling woke up from their light sleep. They looked at each other and looked towards the shack together.

There was a sneaky figure on the other side of the shack, walking towards the other side with a weak flashlight.

Tan Yuchen and Zhang Qiling jumped down from the tree and followed the man with gentle steps.

When Zhang Qiling passed the shack, he glanced at the attic. There was an open window there, and the window was dark without light, but Zhang Qiling knew that there were a pair of eyes watching them there.

Tan Yuchen followed his gaze and looked over: "Leave it to Wuxie."

The two of them followed Lao Itch to a place. Lao Itch hung his flashlight on a tree to serve as a street light, then took out his engineering shovel and dug on the ground.

Tan Yuchen and Zhang Qiling were hiding in the dark. Tan Yuchen took a good look at Lao Chi from top to bottom, and raised his eyebrows when he saw a pistol behind his back:

"Homemade pistol?"

Zhang Qiling nodded and pointed to the way they came.

Qin Yuchen looked over and saw that Wuxie was hiding carefully behind the grass with his waist crouched, looking at Lao Itch.

Wu Xie's sleep was not very peaceful. When he woke up in the middle of the night, he didn't see Lao Chu. Instead, he found that there seemed to be a pair of eyes in the attic that had been watching him.

Wuxie calmed down and climbed up the wooden ladder to the attic with a flashlight.

Fortunately, there was nothing scary in the attic, but a particularly fat golden monkey hanging upside down from the beam, looking down through the cracks in the wood.

When the golden monkey noticed him coming up, he bared his teeth and screamed, with a very fierce expression.

Wuxie didn't care what it looked like, and kept shining a flashlight on it.

The dazzling light made the golden monkey jump up and down in fear, and its screams did not stop for a moment. It smiled innocently and complained: "I told you to scare me, I told you to scare me..."

He chased the golden monkey for a long time, and when he passed the window, he spotted a faint light in the distance.

Wu Xie frowned, thinking that it must be an old itch, so he ignored the golden monkey and quickly walked down the stairs towards the light.

Wu Xie didn't notice Tan Yuchen and the others. All his attention was now on Lao Chi who was struggling to dig a hole.

He didn't know what Lao Itch was digging for. When Lao Itch found him, he just showed him a bronze bell earring, and wanted to go to the tomb again to find some treasures so that he could help.

Wu Xie saw that Lao Itch seemed a little anxious, so he speculated that something had happened to Lao Itch's family. He raised the question, but Lao Itch just shook his head with red eyes and refused to say more.

Wu Xie thought of borrowing money directly from Lao Itch, but Lao Itch smiled and said:

"You may have one hundred and eighty thousand, but...but you can't give me that much...what I want..."

Lao Itch made the sign of four with his fingers and mouthed: "I need... four million."

Wu Xie: "..."

Wu Xie had no choice but to come together.

But looking at it now, it's obvious that Lao Itch didn't tell him something else. Otherwise, why would he stay up late at night and sneak out to dig holes?

Wu Xie complained a lot in his heart, and the more he thought about it, the angrier he became. He planned to rush forward and ask for details before giving Old Tickle a kick, but he hesitated after seeing the pistol.

Wu Xie squatted in the grass for almost half an hour, and Lao Itch also dug the hole for half an hour. Lao Itch finally dug out what he wanted. He picked it up, wiped it casually, and planned to put it in his arms.

"What are you digging for?" The unfamiliar voice suddenly appeared behind him, startling Lao Chi, and he hurriedly pulled out his pistol and turned around.

He saw two strange men standing behind him, one was wearing a hood and his expression could not be seen clearly, and the other was holding a knife in his arms and looking at him with a smile.

Lao Chi held the thing in his arms tightly and raised his pistol and asked: "You...who are you?"

"I'll go, Lao Itch, wait." Wuxie was shocked for a moment when he saw the two people suddenly appearing, and then hurriedly ran out after hearing a familiar voice.

He looked at the two calm and indifferent people and asked angrily: "Why are you two here?"

"Little comrade, you followed us all the way and you asked us why we are here?" Qin Yuchen asked in disbelief.

"I...I wasn't..." Wuxie was speechless. Can he say that he didn't see that the two people were them?

"Huh?" Tan Yuchen tilted his head.

"cough……"

"Old...Old Wu, do you know them?" Wuxie is now very grateful to Lao Itch for asking him questions,

"Yes, the ones I mentioned last night." Wuxie replied, "Old Itchy, what are you digging for here?"

"No...it's nothing." Lao Itch put away his pistol and hid the things in his arms, "Let's go back. We have to continue our journey...at daybreak."

Wuxie quickly grabbed Lao Chu who was about to leave: "I've seen it all, what's in your arms?"

"It's really nothing, Lao Wu, you... just don't ask." Lao Itch broke free from Kai Wuxie's restraints and planned to run away.

Zhang Qiling stepped forward slightly to block his way.

"I saw clearly from there that you put a stick-shaped object into your arms. You tell me it's nothing?" Wuxie pointed at the place where he was squatting and said angrily, "I came to help you sincerely, but you ended up You even sneaked out without telling me, and now that I’ve discovered it, you still haven’t said anything!”

Lao Chu hesitated for a long time without saying a word. Qin Yuchen put his arm around Wu Xie's shoulders and led him toward the shack: "Go back to the shack and let him speak slowly. Your friend can't escape here."

"Hmph!" Wuxie breathed a sigh of relief and followed Tan Yuchen honestly. Zhang Qiling frowned and glared at Lao Itch, making way for him to go ahead.

Old Itch: "..."